Agency Sales Director - Ad Tech
Posted 13 days 21 hours ago by Sphere Digital Recruitment
My client is a growing technology business looking to appoint a senior commercial hire to help accelerate the next phase of its UK growth. Having already established a strong customer base and proven commercial success, they're now investing in expanding their agency partnerships and are looking for someone who wants to play a visible role in building the business. This isn't a large corporate environment - it's an ad tech scale up which has significant backing from well respected names in the industry. It's a role to help shape growth across agencies and an opportunity for someone who enjoys creating opportunities, working with agency groups at all levels, influencing strategy and making a genuine commercial impact.
The Job- Own relationships across a portfolio of major media agencies - Publicis or WPP.
- Develop new commercial opportunities whilst growing strategic partnerships.
- Lead complex sales conversations from first meeting through to commercial agreement.
- Build relationships across agency planning, investment and commercial teams.
- Work closely with leadership to influence commercial priorities and future growth.
- Represent the business externally across the market.
- Help identify new opportunities, sectors and routes to market.
- Play an active role in shaping the future direction of the commercial team.
- MUST HAVE existing relationships within UK media agencies across Publicis or WPP in current or most recent role.
- Experience selling digital media, marketing technology or advertising solutions.
- Strong track record of winning new business.
- Comfortable managing long, consultative sales cycles.
- Commercially driven with excellent relationship building skills.
- Someone who enjoys building rather than maintaining.
- Entrepreneurial and motivated by making an impact.
- Wants to join a business where success is visible and recognised.
- Genuine opportunity to influence the direction of a growing commercial business.
- High level of autonomy with direct access to senior leadership.
- Entrepreneurial culture where ideas are encouraged.
- Established customer base with significant opportunity for future growth.
- Excellent earning potential through an uncapped commission structure.
- Opportunity to help shape future commercial strategy as the business scales.
- Collaborative team with a strong reputation for developing its people.
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